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| Equipment Specific Considerations to T&E > Manual Tools > Prodders |
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| Test design, prodding force, prodding angle |
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When testing a prodder under controlled conditions, the test should be designed so that it is possible to assess the force exerted on the prodder to penetrate the prodder into the soil, the angle of the prodder with the soil surface and the prodding location (target centre or off-centre).
Note that any prodder that sets a limit to the force applied, has very limited practical utility. In most circumstances where the ground is hard or compacted, deminers do not prod to "feel" for a mine. They prod to loosen the ground and must therefore frequently use a force that would initiate most mines. |
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A.J. Schoolderman, S.G.M.van Dijk, D. Deurloo, Instrumented Prodder: Results from the Tests under Controlled Conditions, TNO, 2003. |
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